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Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico

Rituals, Religion, and Revenue

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Struggle for Natural Resources

Findings from Bolivian History

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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At the Heart of the Borderlands

Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Age of Dissent

Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780–1833

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going

A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Gamboa's World

Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain

University of New Mexico Press

Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Conquest of the Desert

Argentina’s Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History

University of New Mexico Press

This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina's most important historical periods.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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From the Galleons to the Highlands

Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas

University of New Mexico Press

Students and scholars will find the comprehensive study and analysis in From the Galleons to the Highlands invaluable in examining the study of the slave trade to colonial Spanish America.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Troubled Marriage

Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas

University of New Mexico Press

A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Staging Frontiers

The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay

University of New Mexico Press

In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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A Woman, a Man, a Nation

Mariquita Sánchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the Beginnings of Argentina

University of New Mexico Press

Mariquita's and Juan Manuel's lives corresponded with the major events and processes that shaped the turbulent beginnings of the Argentine nation, many of which also shaped Latin America and the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution (1750-1850).

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Origins of Macho

Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Mexico in the Time of Cholera

University of New Mexico Press

The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Tides of Revolution

Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela

University of New Mexico Press

This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Mexico City, 1808

Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution

University of New Mexico Press

Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Murder in Mérida, 1792

Violence, Factions, and the Law

University of New Mexico Press

This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries' imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire

University of New Mexico Press

Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Pursuit of Ruins

Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains in Mexico took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Sons of the Mexican Revolution

Miguel Alemán and His Generation

University of New Mexico Press

Using a wide array of new archival sources, Alexander demonstrates that the transformative political decisions made by civilian government officials, after the 1946 election, represented both their collective values as a generation and their effort to adapt those values to the realities of the Cold War.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina

Letters to Juan and Eva Perón

University of New Mexico Press

Focusing on the first era of Peronism, from 1946 to 1955, this work shows how President Perón and the First Lady created charismatic ways to link themselves to Argentine supporters through letter writing.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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